{"id":242393,"date":"2003-07-02T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/07\/shocking-statistics-reveal-escalating-child-molestation"},"modified":"2003-07-02T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2003-07-02T16:40:10","slug":"shocking-statistics-reveal-escalating-child-molestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/07\/shocking-statistics-reveal-escalating-child-molestation","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Statistics Reveal Escalating Child Molestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the ministry&#8217;s Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Unit (SCAN) fear that the numbers already collected for the year will increase during the summer months when children are out of school.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nStartling statistics revealed an alarming  increase for the past two years. The Princess Margaret Hospital received 77 children in 2001. That number increased to 100 in 2002.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nFrom January to May 2003, already 40 young children have fallen victim to sexual predators. In the month of May, 26 children, ranging from a few months old to nine years old had to receive treatment.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nFor 12 of those young victims the trip to the emergency room was not their first visit for sexual related injuries.<br \/>\n<P><B><br \/>\nSource: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent statistics from the Ministry of Health reveal that child molestation cases are &#8220;escalating&#8221; in the Bahamas with as many as three children a day being admitted to the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}